I’ve received several requests to give some examples of using repeats in a chart. This post will cover the basics of doing that.
Let’s start with a lace chart created in Stitchmastery but with no Border or Repeat added;-
Notice that when Stitchmastery generates the written instructions it looks for patterns in the text and does its best to condense any repeated portions of a row that it finds. So, for example, instead of writing;-
yo, ssk, yo, ssk
it writes;-
(yo, ssk) x 2
But what if we wanted the knitter to repeat the middle portion of the chart? Well we could add a nice big red Border to the chart to indicate that;-
The red Border stands out and, with the edited key entry, is quite clear to the knitter following the chart that the middle portion must be worked 5 times. However, as the Border is only a visual element on the chart, the written instructions do not match the chart.
Once a Repeat has been added the chart looks the same but the written instructions now match the chart.
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If a pattern simply says “repeat” in the key next to the symbol of a red box, would you assume that that means to repeat it only once?
Thank you!
Cora
Hopefully a pattern would give enough other info to help clarify that (eg stitch counts at the end of rows, if you had a chart that was 10 stitches wide but your knitting was 30 stitches wide, that would be a good hint that you’d have to repeat the section more than once). A designer might choose not to specify how many times in the key if it’s a pattern that grows in size and you have to repeat the section more times as the piece gets larger.
Hope that helps!